ALTERNATIVE NEWS

14 Jun 2013

American civil servants and the NSA 'Prism' are motivated by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism and they'll lose their jobs.Dr Nafeez Ahmed:Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) documents disclosed by the Guardian have shocked the world with revelations of a comprehensive US-based surveillance system with direct access to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants. New Zealand court records suggest that data harvested by the NSA's Prism system has been fed into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance whose members also include the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.But why have Western security agencies developed such an unprecedented capacity to spy on their own domestic populations?

By Arthur Laffer:When I first went to work for
the Nixon administration, I told my mom, “Mom, you can’t believe it. I
just wrote a speech for Nixon and he used every single word. Well, he
did make two little changes. Everywhere I had ‘is’ he put ‘is not,’ and
everywhere I had ‘is not’ he put ‘is,’ but other than that, Mom, it’s
exactly my speech.”Nixon did all sorts of things wrong: the
import surcharge, the wage and price controls, the huge increase in
social spending, the doubling of the capital gains tax rate. But to my
way of thinking, Nixon’s biggest problem was going off gold.I am a
strong advocate of sound money. I believe that it’s basically the Fed’s
responsibility to guarantee the value of the dollar, to make sure we
don’t have inflation. Nixon wanted us to go off the gold, which led to
the high interest rates and hyperinflation of the ’70s and very early
’80s. In fact, it really was a global phenomenon.

BySimon Black:Santiago, Chile -In 1919, a prominent socialist named Nicholas Klein addressed the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Convention. And in describing
their struggle, he told the crowd:
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” (A version of this quote is frequently mis-attributed to Gandhi, though there is no evidence that Gandhi ever said this…) Though Klein was a staunch socialist, he really hit the nail on the head. Right now there’s an obvious trend in the West.
Government insolvency is rapidly pushing those societies down the path
of tyranny– drone assassinations, digital spying, pointless wars,
confiscation of bank balances, capital controls, and the criminalization
of everything from raw milk to collecting rain water. The world has been here so many times before throughout history. And
the trend seems so clear. Yet only a handful of people get it. Most people don’t want to hear about it. And they certainly don’t want to believe it.

Submitted by Tyler Durden:Sometimes one must see to believe, in this case believe just
how massive the raw demand for the shiny, barbarous relic is in China
during times of relative monetary stability (in this case the Dragon
Boat Festival). Now assume runaway inflation as we saw in
2011 China, which may be unleashed by something as catalytic as the PBOC
once again deciding to inject liquidity in its suffocating banking
system and to revive growth in the stalling economy.

June 11, ten thousand people line up in front of a gold shop to
buy gold. The buyers lined up during the three day Dragon Boat Festival.

Big Banksters and Other Corporate Bigwigs Benefit from Illegal Spying
ByWashingtonsBlog:You’ve heard that the government spies on all Americans. But you might not know that the government shares that information with big corporations.Reuters reported in 2011 thatthe NSA shares intelligence with Wall Street banksters in the name of “battling hackers.”

The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S.
military, has begun providing Wall Street banksters with intelligence on
foreign hackers, a sign of growing U.S. fears of financial sabotage.The
assistance from the agency that conducts electronic spying overseas is
part of an effort by American banks and other financial firms to get
help from the U.S. military and private defense contractors to fend off
cyber attacks, according to interviews with U.S. officials, security
experts and defense industry executives.The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also warned banksters of
particular threats amid concerns that hackers could potentially exploit
security vulnerabilities to wreak havoc across global markets and cause
economic mayhem.

The Slog: After nine years of actual and spun cost to
the taxpayer – with absolutely no ‘outcome’, to use the contemporary
syntax – on March 31st last Connecting for Health (CfH) ceased to exist.
Don’t bother looking for any tweets from the Health Secretary about it,
because there weren’t any. It was a Sunday, you see…good day to bury a
story. Oh, and the start of British ‘Summer’ Time. Look through all the
news archives for the day, and you won’t find a single MSM article
relating to it. Google ‘Connecting for Health abolished’, and not one
MSM title comes up as having covered it at all at any time. They must have done, presumably: perhaps Cameron did a deal with his Google intimates to erase it from history.

By Richard Cottrell:The violence in Turkey could well end in a full scale military
putsch, thus making the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the fifth to
be overthrown with varying degrees of severity over the last half
century.Alternatively, it may usher in the age of FascIslam, kismet-style. Or even a hodgepodge of both.Istanbul looks like Manhattan on the Bosporus, in fact it is the
least Islamic looking city to be found anywhere in the Islamic world.The new minarets of the faith are the forests of sprouting
skyscrapers. But prosperity comes at a price. There is a severe shortage
of buildable space, so when the Istanbul municipality’s eye fell on one
of the few remaining green oasis smack in the center of the metropolis,
close to the city’s reverential heart, Taksim Square, trouble might be confidently expected.Well, that’s the fairy tale side of things painted by the western media. The facts are infinitely more complex.

Charles Hugh Smith: Fostering illusions of prosperity only further cripples our ability to make the necessary difficult decisions.

Have you ever noticed that the decisions made in times of abundance are generally bad?Bad might
be too weak a word; catastrophically bad might be more accurate. This
causal connection between abundance and flawed decision-making was one
of the many stimulating ideas that came up during an afternoon with
Aengus Anderson, host of the excellent audio program series The Conversation.

This dynamic has two sources:

1. There is no pressure in eras of abundance to make difficult choices.
Since everything is going so swimmingly, "more of the same" is what
everyone wants. After all, why risk upsetting the gravy train?

By John Cheese:Being poor is like a game of poker where if you lose, the other
players get to fuck you. And if you win, the dealer fucks you. A bunch
of you reading this are among the 45 million “working poor” in America, and if you’re not, you know somebody who is. Like me.

I’m not blaming anybody but myself for getting into this situation (I was drunk for two straight decades)
and I’m not asking for anybody’s sympathy. What I am saying is that
people are quick to tell you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and
just stop being poor. What they don’t understand is the series of
intricate financial traps that makes that incredibly difficult.If you’re not poor, that’s awesome. I’m not mad at you, or jealous. Hopefully you’ll never find out that …

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We are way past being surprised at the blanket suppression of this information by the BBC and main stream media propaganda machines. Information is clearly available elsewhere and unchallenged, accounts for a far more realistic rendition of what we have actually seen and what we continue to see develop, whilst the main stream news put out leaves many confused and bewildered, 99.9% of us wrong footed and the awakened indignant. As we can now see, the apparently 'soft fascist' powers that be aim to block these alternative avenues of information. Book up, "Long Live the Evolution."Feel free to kopimi. Angelo Agathangelou.

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